Posts Tagged ‘NZVCC’

News 16/7 – Joyce Day II, Wintec Carpark and TEU Corner

In: Facilities & Equipment| Funding| ITPs| Research| Staff| Strategy & Policy| Students| TEO Sector Groups| Universities

16 Jul 2010

Joyce’s Ripples The ripples from Joyce’s speech continue to expand. Nelson teaching students, studying with the University of Canterbury, are happy with Joyce’s look at student services fees. They had already protested, and seemingly gained a reduction, in Canterbury’s fees, given that most of their time is spent in Nelson, where Canterbury has very few [...]

News 15/7 – It’s Steven Joyce Day!

In: Export Education| Funding| ITOs| Research| Strategy & Policy| Universities

15 Jul 2010

Steven Joyce Day I’m naming today Steven Joyce day because all the big stories today stem from his speech yesterday at Victoria University on tertiary education policy.

The Dom Post focused on the review of universities’ big extra student support fees (UCOL too from memory) as did the NZ Herald (NZPA had a piece too). VUW, AUT and [...]

Who sets university entrance?

In: Quality Assurance| Universities

15 Jun 2010

This might kick off a series of posts on university entrance (although David Choat’s February post on open entry might be the first) as there are a lot of interesting aspects to it.
Many readers will think that NZQA sets university entrance standards (in consultation with universities of course) and they will be both right and [...]

News 1/6 – Student Limits, Residence for Foreign Students and Pay Envy

In: Policy

1 Jun 2010

Someone turned up the news heat today. There are some great wee stories below.

Residence for Study This is a chunky Dominion Post story. NZVCC Chair Derek McCormack is calling for foreign student graduates to automatically get residency. Steven Joyce said no, but then said that he wanted to review the allocation and coordination of international education promotion [...]

News 24/5 – Restructuring Booms, as Does Budget Reaction

In: Funding| ITPs| Staff| Students| Universities

24 May 2010

Restructuring Around the Country

Massey University is closing down its Hawkes Bay teacher education courses, based at EIT. It will maintain its MOE-funded teacher professional development team. The 59 students will be able to transfer to Palmerston North or continue studying by distance. Massey says that the operation is not financially viable. As budgets tighten, it [...]

NZVCC on the Budget

In: Universities

17 May 2010

This post by Derek McCormack, NZVCC Chairperson and AUT Vice-Chancellor, is the sixth in our series of guest posts from sector groups on the 2010 Budget. You can access the others in our featured posts sidebar.
It’s no secret that the government is facing difficult financial times and the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors’ Committee (NZVCC) acknowledges that tough [...]

News 14/5 – Reaction to VUW Caps plus Lincoln-Telford Merger

In: Funding| Research| Students| TEI Issues| Universities

14 May 2010

Our fifth sector group comments on the upcoming budget today at 9.30am - it’s NZUSA, covering the student viewpoint.

Vic’s Enrolment Shutdown Unsurprisingly, yesterday’s media was dominated by VUW’s decision to stop taking enrolments for the rest of 2010.

NZUSA said that the doors of opportunity had been slammed shut twice on students, at VUW and Otago (which [...]

Universities Have Great Idea

In: Universities

12 May 2010

The NZVCC have just announced a great initiative, along with Business NZ, TEC and the University Commercialisation Office of NZ. As you might have guessed by the participants, it’s all about business-university links.
UniServices, the commercialisation arm of the University of Auckland, is hosting an event to promote university innovation and technology in the health sector on [...]

Enough to Make a University CRI?

In: Research

30 Mar 2010

Wayne Mapp released the Government’s response to the CRI Taskforce report yesterday, and it might have some big implications for universities down the track.
The policy changes all seem pretty sensible, as the consensus is that the science reforms of the early 1990s went too far by making CRI funding too contestable, diverting focus from long-term capability [...]

News 5 Mar – CRIs, VSM and ITO Governance

In: ITOs| Quality Assurance| Students

5 Mar 2010

Waynne Smith’s post on ITO issues yesterday raised some good issues and so have the comments – check it out if you haven’t already.

CRI Taskforce A big report was released yesterday reviewing Crown Research Institutes. Responses have come from the NZVCC and Science NZ. I was surprised to see the NZVCC so conciliatory, given that the report proposes [...]


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